This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand … policy-making. It is also crucial for effective water demand management. We focus on theapplication of statistical methods to … empirical estimates of the price and income elasticity ofresidential water demand vary to such considerable extents. The set of …

The surge of Residential Fresh Water Demand (RFWD) has raised great concern for China’s water supply and understanding … the driving forces of RFWD is critical to maintain a sufficient water supply. Drawing on the panel dataset from 31 Chinese … as local social norms regarding hygiene habits and water resource use. Our estimation results indicate that the rapid …

We present the first meta-analysis of the income elasticity of water demand that accounts for the effects of … demand equation. …

estimate water demand functions, which yields elasticity estimates of around − 0.41 for both residential and industrial sectors …We develop a framework to analyze urban water tariff setting and its welfare implications and apply it to a panel of … cities in the People's Republic of China in the 2000s. First, we find that peer cities' water tariff levels have a …